AMA's Top Executive Resigns
Amid Fallout Over Sunbeam Pact

CHICAGO -- The American Medical Association's top-ranking staff executive, P. John Seward, resigned as the fallout continued over the group's abortive plans to endorse products made by Sunbeam Corp.

The AMA said Dr. Seward, the group's executive vice president, didn't play a role in negotiating the agreement with Sunbeam, which the AMA disavowed a week after it was announced in August. But Dr. Seward did participate in the news conference when the AMA originally announced that it would endorse Sunbeam health-care products....